Disclaimers: I do not own escaflowne but I do own Kurai, I decided to use Ashley as her name, even though she is Kurai..just makes it easier. lol sorry.
Haned Megami se Tenshinranman soshite Kyuui
Chapter Five
Ashley stood there speechless, she couldn't beleive he had just kissed her. At one moment she was stunned, then she was happy, then she was full of rage. With her violet eyes gleaming, she pulled back her arm and slapped Dilandau hard. He kept his head to the side as he listened to Ashley run out of the melef bay. He couldn't beleive he just kissed her much less touched her. It was extremely shocking to him, though then again it wasn't. Shaking his head he walked slowly out of the hanger with one thought in his mind. why?
Ashley ran away from the melef bay thinking about what had just happened, she couldn't beleive he kissed her. And she couldn't beleive she had hit him. Of course he pissed her off, but kissing her? Running down one hallway she came a room where it had all fifteen dragonslayers in the room all swordfighting. Chesta stood off to the side without a sparring partner since Dilandau wasn't there. Ashley smiled and ran over to him, he looked at her confused and started speaking.
" What're you doing here?" Chesta asked her, he was facing her though he violet eyes looked past him and at the graceful movements of the dragonslayers.
" Just here, dunno why... do you ...do you think you could show me how to do that?" She asked like pointinf towards what Migel and Guimel were doing, which was sparring with swords. Chesta looked at her like she was crazy though when he looked into her pleading violet hues he caved.
" Fine, go get two wooden practice swords from the table over their and come to me in the middle of the room." He told her, nodding excitedly, all thoughts considering what happened with Dilandau left her mind. Running exstatically to the table to grabbed two practice swords and half ran half leaped over to Chesta. She handed him a sword and took her own, it was light but not too light.
" Ok, now hold it with two hands and charge at me." He said, blinking, Ashley held it tightly in both of her arms and then blinked.
" Charge you?" She asked, he smacked his forehead all the while asking himself what he had gotten himself into.
" Yeah, just run at me and try to hit me with your sword." He said, Ashley nodded unsure and gripped the handle of the sword. Taking in a deep breath she ran at him. Kind of unsure about what to do Ashley just swung her sword at him and he blocked it all the while side stepping.
Scrunching up her nose she continued to attack him with him effortlessly blocking. Finally they stopped and he took an new approach with her.
" Ok, now I'm going to attack and you block." He said, nodding Ashley gripped her sword again and didn't notice everyone crowding around them.
Ashley relaxed her body and for some reason felt like someone was controlling her every move. She could feel someone holding onto her hands so that she held the practice sword and stood against her body to help her move. She looked behind her but no one was there, shaking her head she watched as he ran at her. Taking the offensive he pushed Ashley back, her right heel dug into the hard packed dirt floor of the training room . She pushed her foot down harder but the force he applied made her slide back. Then with a cry and pushed all her strength into pushing him off of her. He looked at her funny and all she did was smile at him. They ran at each other all the while laughing and smiling, they locked and their faces were merely inches apart. Chesta threw her off of him and Ashley stumbled backwards. The crowd started backing up until she fell on her butt. She nodded at the awaiting Chesta and he didn't give her time to get up, he attacked her. She blocked surprisingly with great force, still sitting on her but she got on her knees still blocking his attacks. Then jumping to her feet she attacked him. They weren't holding back anymore and were giving it all they've got. Then out of no where, she twisted her wrist and his sword went flying out of his hands and slide into the wall. Ashley pointed her practice sword at Chesta's throat and got a full blown smile on her face. She took the sword back as applause erupted, Ashley stepped towards Chesta and slung an arm over his shoulder, he smiled at her and looked at the crowd only to go stiff and rigid. Ashley peered into the audience to see Dilandau there and scowling. He came over to them and turned to the dragonslayers.
" Get back to work!!" He barked, everyone scrambled around trying to find partners to spar with.
Growling he turned his gaze to Ashley and Chesta, Ashely was glaring at him she just turned her face she other way. Dilandau smirked as he watched Ashley walk out of the room. Turning to Chesta he unsheathed his sword and waited for him to do the same before they started training.
Ashley walked to her room and found the door halfway open, raising an eyebrow she just waked right in to find Folken in there. He was sitting on the dark blue chair that went to her vanity near the closet. Smiling to her older brother she sat in the bay window before turning to him. He smiled back at her before turning his face into a serious one. Blinking Ashley knew this wasn't going to be good.
" I want you to stay away from Dilandau, and to never, ever go into the training room." Folken told her in a low, serious voice. Ashley's eyebrows went into their hairline for the second time that night and she was confused.
" What do you mean ' stay away from Dilandau' what do you think I've been trying to do?" She asked him, he laughed at this and turned his twinkling eyes towards her.
" Ah, yes well then maybe you should try harder. Nothing good will come from messing or being with Dilandau. Just don't go near places he would be in." Folken told her, Ashley eagerly nodded 'yes' and he left her room.
Sitting by herself in her room, it was dark, and you could see the dark green foliage down below as the Vione made its treck to only god knows where. (( god: Cough*Dilandau*Cough)) Sighing she stood up finally and stretched her arms high above her head. Arching her back slightly she got an idea, she hadn't had enough time to take her things out of the bag besides her clothes so she decided to go through it.
Sitting in the middle of her black carpeted floor, she had her white and blue duffel bag in both hands shaking it vigourisly until all of its contents came spilling out. She noted how many electronical things she brought, and food. Her eyes glazed over and she started to drool as she thought about sitting in her house eating Edy's rocky road flavoed ice cream and watching Gundam Wing on her t.v.
A knock sounded from her door, which brought her out of her stupor. Sighing a little bit she cleared her throat and yelled out a ' come in '. Soon her room was filled with all six of her dragonslayer freinds. Smiling at them they all came in and sat around her, at least three were sitting on her bed, as they watched her sort through her things.
" What brings you guys here?" Ashley asked as she set yet another YM magazine off to the side. Apparently she was going to let Cara or Jami borrow them.
" We just got done with training, Dilandau only kept us two hours, can you beleive it?" Guimel said and watched her pick up a aqua colored thing with gre buttons on it. " What's that?" He asked, Ashley turned to him and smiled.
" It's called a gameboy, right now I have Evil Zone in it but you can change the games to whatever you want. " (( ok I know Evil zone is only for playstation but I like worship that game.)) Handing it over to him, he took it and flipped the 'on' switch, The screen flared to life and music began to play, soon it was showing them glipses of the contestants in the fights. Most of the dragonslayers were crowded around him as he began to choose who he wanted to be. Surprisingly for Ashley he chose her favorite character, Kakurine.
" Yah know Kakurine looks exactly like you only with crimson eyes." Gatti pondered outloud. Ashley laughed and picked up her mini stereo system. Blinking she wondered why this was in there, then she remembered Jami wanted to borrow it. Seemed like her freinds borrow everything, setting it up on her night stand she checked the batteries and was happy to find out they weren't even used.
Flipping the on switch, and hooking her stereo system to her mp3 player she set it to the fourth song. Ayumi Hamasaki's Evolution filled the room. Viole who was next to her fell off the bed in surprise when a woman's voice filtered through the speakers. Ashley started rocking her hips together with the music and began to sing along, moving seductively to the techno beats.
Sou da ne bokura atarashii jidai wo,
Mukaete mitai ne kisekiteki ka mo ne,
Nido to wa chotto ajiwaenai yo ne,
Mou ichido Omoidashite,
Kono hoshi ni umare tsuita hi,
Kitto nandaka ureshikute,
Kitto nandaka setsunakute,
Bokura wa naite itan da,
wow yeah wow yeah wow wow yeah,
Genjitsu wa uragiru mono de handansae,
Ayamaru kara ne soko ni aru kachi wa,
Sono mede chanto mikiwamete ite ne,
Jibun no monosashi de,
Konna toki ni umare tsuita yo,
Dakedo nanto ka shindette,
Dakara nanto ka koko ni tatte,
Bokura wa kyou wo okutteru,
wow yeah wow yeah wow yeah,
Konna hoshi ni umare tsuita yo,
Nandaka totemo ureshikute,
Nandaka totemo setsunakute,
Ookina koe de naki nagara,
wow yeah wow yeah wow wow yeah,
Konna toki ni umare tsuita yo,
Dakedo kimi ni deaeta yo,
Konna hoshi ni umare tsuita yo,
Dakedo kimi ni deaeta yo,
Kono hoshi ni umare tsuita hi,
Kitto nandaka ureshikute,
Kitto nandaka setsunakute,
Bokura wa naite itan da,
wow yeah wow yeah wow wow yeah,
Konna toki ni umare tsuita yo,
Dakedo nanto ka shindette,
Dakara nanto ka koko ni tatte,
Bokura wa kyou wo okutteru,
wow yeah wow yeah wow wow yeah!!
When Ashley finished the guys practically had their eyes bugging out of their head, they had no idea what she was saying. But it was cool, she had danced to the rythem of the fast talking lady in the box. That was when Chesta looked wickedly at the box and unsheathed his sword.
"That evil box has trapped that poor woman inside!!" He cried out and went to attack it when Ashley cried out in shock and tackled the poor boy to the floor. He looked at her funny, he was laying on his back and she was practically straddeling his chest.
" No, that box plays music, the woman isn't trapped someone recorded her voice and now I can play it whenever I want." Ashley explained, in the back ground laughter flared and Ashley turned her head to see Dilandau in the doorway of her room laughing full heartily.
Glaring at him Ashley slid off of Chesta whom stood up and watched Guimel play with the 'gameboy'. Sitting down infront of her stuff, she grabbed all of her cds and set them up in alphabetical order on the shelf of her night stand. She watched as Dilandau came over to her and sat near her. The guys were all having fun playing with her stuff, Viole was flipping through her magazines, Guimel was playing with her gameboy still with Gatti over his shoudler saying how he was dooing really bad, Chesta was looking at her stereo system suspiciously, and then Ryou and Migel were on her bed sorting through her make-up. It was odd sight, no one seemed to acknowledge their captian.
" Must be after hours." Ashley mumbled to herself.
She found the dark violet gameboy that you can hook up to the aqua one and play head to head. taking it and the cord she grabbed the aqua one and hooked them together. Now both Guimel and Gatti were fighting each other and laughing at their stupid mistakes. Ashley sat back down and noticed that Dilandau had found her stack of photo albums. One was green with gold trim, another was a floral design. He flipped through the pages and kept raising his eyebrow until it was trying to go beyond his hair line. Ashley sat behind him and peered over his shoulder at what he was looking at. These were the pictures from her last birthday party, when she turned fourteen. Actually come to think about it her birthday was coming up. She laughed as he turned the page and it showed her trying to blow out the candles, which cause she was laughing so hard resulted in her face in the side of the cake from when her freind Kat bumped her. Ashley giggled as the flashbacks started coming.
~Flashback~
It was really cold outside, it was winter time, the date being January 31st, Ashley's birthday. She was dressed in a pale pink long sleeve dress shirt, white tank top underneath, dark blue jeans and white tennis shoes. Her hair was left down with half the top pulled backa nd wied by a pale pink ribbon. She was currently sitting at the table blowing balloons up before the guests started to arrive in one hour. She was watching the Time Squad marathon, and laughed so hard the balloon flew forewards and flew around the room doing loop-to-loops.
Ashley laughed and her 'mother' came in, she was a beautiful woman, shoulder length strawberry blonde hair and large cobalt blue eyes, dark skinned. For some reason she and her mother never aged the same as other people. True they were the same age but for some reason everyone else around them would grow faster, while Ashley was always left behind being the smallest.
~End~
Ashley shook the memory from her head as she felt someone staring at her, she hadn't noticed the dragonslayers leave until she recognized that the room was empty of noise. Looking up from staring at the floor she ended up staring into Diladau's crimson orbs. Sighing Ashley didn't understand why this seemingly angel like child was so horrible, and why her brother didn't want her to be freinds with him if he worked with him. True, Dilandau did kiss her, but it was more of a heat of the moment type deal. Though, after she had slaped him and run off she wanted to return to him and say she was sorry. She should never of done that it was very mean on her part.
" Dilandau, I"m really sorry about ealier... I didn't mean to slap you. It just came out and.. and I'm really sorry." Ashley looked up at him and was hoping for forgiveness. Dilandau stared at her and shrugged it off.
Ashley watched him and knew she couldn't hold this against him, after all it was male hormones and she'd have to deal with the same thing if she were at home. She smiled at him and noticed he was laying sideways facing her on the carpet. He had removed his armor and only sat there clad in a white tank top tunic, much like hers, tight black leggings and his knee high black boots. Ashley chewed on he bottom lip and thought about how soft his lips were against hers, regardless if they were crushing together. Heeving a rather large sigh Ashley scrunched up her nose and pouted, she watched him play idly with her carpet and noticed how cute he looked. He no longer had his barriers up and Ashley was happy he was relaxed with her. Smiling rather victoriously, Ashley layed herself on the soft plush carpet, she was staring up at the ceiling and yawned sleepily. She watche dout of the corner of her eye as Dilandau scooted rather closely to her, she frowned slightly but tarnished it. If he even touched a hair on her head her brother would kick his ass, right?
" I'm sorry for what I said earlier." He mumbled, Ashley's eyes nearly bugged out of her head. According to Chesta Dilandau has never apologized to anyone in his entire life. Blinking Ashley nearly choked on her own saliva, and here he was nervously apologizing to her.
" It's ok, don't worry about it we all have our jackass moments." Ashley said to him, though inside she added. ' Yours are just all the fucking time.' Still smiling outwardly to him, she was scowling on the inside. She still couldn't get evil thoughts out of her head about him and here he was laying on her floor, next to her, looking all sexy like.
" Hm, what would you say if I was to kiss you?" Dilandau finally asked her, Ashley rose an eyebrow and looked at him.
" Well, i ask if you were drunk and knew full well what you were doing, and then if you were still insistant I'd tell you, that your men might come back and walk in on us." Ashley answered rather thoughtfully, Dilandau had somehow gotten closer to her while she was thinking and his body barely touched hers. Ashley stared at him as he leaned over her. His face was just inches from hers and she could tell by the look in his eyes he had a plan formed.
" And I would reply, that I didn't care." He whispered softly and leaned down, his lips softly touched hers. He closed his eyes slowly, though Ashley had already been there. He ran his tongue along her bottom lip and was surprised when she complied and opened her mouth.
Ashley's entire world exploded as his tongue tentatively explored the inside of her mouth. Their tongues intertwined together and dueled for dominancy, Ashley's pale hands found their way to his silky silver tresses and continued to run her hands through them. Dilandau ran a hand up her sides until he came to her breasts, he gently stroked the right one with his thumb through her shirt, this cause her to arch her back and moan low in her throat. Satisfied, Dilandau leaned back and watched her face, it was relaxed and held a large smile. Her dark eyelashes laid gently against her pale cheeks, only to move as she slowly opened them. Her eyes were dreamy as she slowly licked her lips. Ashley couldn't beleive that the kiss was like that. She couldn't beleive she actually let him, then Ashley thought about her brother.
' It would just be great if he walked in on us at this moment.' Ashley thought to herself, she now noticed that her fingers were laced in his silver locks. Smiling to herself she then noticed what they looked like, she was laying on the floor, one leg layng straight, the other arched slightly rubbing against his thigh. He was stradling her waist with his arms on either side of her, with her fingers in his hair. The two just started at each other for a while. Then Dilandau leaned into her, Ashley's breath caught into her throat as she thought about him kissing her. Just when he was about to he stopped and smirked at her vulnerability. and in one swift motion he stood up, grabbed his armor and left, closing the door silently behind him.
See, Ashley didn't notice due to the fact she had her eyes closed when she awaited the kiss. Laying there on the soft carpeted floor Ashley's lips were reddened from the previous kiss, and were now puckered up. About ten minutes went by before Ashley finally cracked an eye open, then the other one. Scowling Ashley sat up and slammed her hands into the floor.
"FUCK!!" was the only word that escaped her mouth as she scowled at what Dilandau did.
Dilandau had just come out of his room from putting his armor on when he heard Ashley scream in her room. Shaking his head he walked down towards the mess hall, he didn't really want to leave but he had a previous chat with her older brother and didn't nessecarily want to get in his way at the moment.
~Flashback~
" Dilandau I want you to stay away from her." Folken stated, his voice was low and serious, almost set off vibes that said ' touch my sister with a ten foot pole and I'll kill you'.
" I can't gurantee that Folken." He told the man, Folken peered at Dilandau kind of suspiciously before nodding and getting back to little 'experiment'.
~End~
Dilandau thought about what he had done with Ashley and mentally sighed, he knew he was in love with this girl and what, she'd only been here three days. He must've been getting soft, he'd have to fix that though, he'd definately have to fix that.
Ashley got up off her carpet when he stomach growled, picked up her gamboy, mp3 player, and a plastic baggy of fig newtons, Ashley went out her door. Listening to Ayumi Hamsaki's Never Ever. Swaying her hips to the music she turned on her purple gameboy and started to play donkey kong. She had her music up to maximum volume so when she turned a corner to go into the mess hall she didn't notice or hear the other slayers. Playing her game she walked through the line occassionally grabbing things to put on her tray. Grabbing a bottle of vino and a glass she came out the line and thought against sitting with the slayers. Instead she walked right past their table, which made Dalet reach back and grab the back of her shirt.
Stumbling back she had to be careful not to spill her food all over herself or anyone else. Glaring at Dallet it told him he had five seconds to tell her what he wanted since he was keeping her from her beloved food.
" Do you want to join us?" He asked her, Ashley blinked then took off her headphones, the music blared from within and she nodded 'yes'. After all how could you possible deprive these people of her presence. She noticed how Dilandau was once again sitting diagonal from her though this time she was sitting on the edge of the bench and this time she would not faint or have a weird spaz.
" So, whatcha guys up to?" Ashley asked them taking a bit of her steak, she absolutely loved steak. Then she remembered her fig newtons, half squeeling half gurgling as she swallowed the steak she opened the zip lock baggy and took one out and popping it into her mouth.
" What's that?" Guimel asked her, Ashley blinked then handed the bag out to everyone as she chewed on her fig newton, she practically had three packages in her room anyways. Everyone took one and hesitantly put it in their mouths, even Dilandau.
" It's a fig newton, it's a kind of cookie on earth." She explained, everyone liked them, but Viole ended up eating the entire bag earning him a soft swat to the head by Ashley.
After they talked, ate, drank, and talked some more it was nine-o-clock and time for them all to turn in. Ashley talked Gatti into giving her a piggyback ride on their way to the rooms. After about half way there he started complaining about her being too heavy, which was a joke, Ashley pouted and started looking at herself.
" I'm not fat." She pouted and bent over to look at her legs, then when she stood up she heard someone snickering behind her and turned around but everyone was gone.
Frowning Ashley thought this wasn't the least bit funny, then she heard someone laughing to her left, but when she turned to looke no one was there. Slightly scared Ashley could have sworn the guys were with her now they like dissappeared. Ashley turned around and faced the end of the hallway that held her room. Biting her bottom lip she wondered if she could make a mad dash for it and not seem like a wuss. Then it happened, the lights turned out. The hallway became very dark, very scary, and all the shapes started turning into demons of the night. Ashley stiffened as she felt someone walked past her but since her eyes hadn't adjust to the darkness yet she couldn't see who or what it was.
Swallowing hard Ashley didn't want to seem scared, about to take a step foreward she suddenly felt something stroke her hair from behind. Squeeky Ashley stiffly turned around and immediatly screamed. There was this tall black blob in front of her, Ashley took a step back as it reached for her. The thing was moaning low in its throat, eyes wide in fear Ashley turned and ran as fast as she could but couldn't see her room in the dark hallway. Turning back to see if it was catching up with her she ended up bumping into someone or something. Landing on her butt she was too scared to speak of scream, the thing in front of her was the same thing that was chasing her. Then remembering she had some witch training she blinked. Scooting backwards away from the slowly aproaching figure she bumped into something behind her, looking up she saw that it was the one that was actually chasing her. Scared half to death she figured a light spell would work to help her gain an advantage.
" Once was dark, now is light, please give me the better sight." She mumbled not even half sure it would work. Then to her surprise she could see int he darkness as if there were millions of lights on.
Looking at the figures before her she noticed that it was Guimel holding Chesta on his shoulders with a weird black blanket over them, and then Migel holding Viole on his shoulders, while Ryou and Gatti were standing off to the side trying not to laugh. Though she saw Dilandau, and in the darkness nothing made a sound, no one knew where she was. For it was pitch black and they were only relying on sound. Ashley smirked to herself as she walked up to Dilandau, she was about a couple of steps in front of him and he still couldn't see her, that's how black it was. Smiling evilly to herself she walked off a bit until she was near her bedroom door, then she whispered, though since she was kind of far away it echoed.
" I am everywhere, I am everywhere. You should watch your backs, you should watch your backs." Was all she said, though who ever she sounded like mad them stiffen before they started calling out for Ashley.
" Ashley is that you are you ok?!?" Ryou was asking, Ashley walked towards them acting like she had been crying. The lights came on and Ashley stood there with her hands over her face pretending that she was crying. Gatti put a hand on her shoulder but it only shook, with what they thought were sobs but were actually laughs. Soon she couldn't hold it in any longer she let her hands fall to her side and she laughed.
" You are so weird." Guimel said and raised one of his eyebrows.
" Yeah well atleast I wasn't holding anyone on my shoudlers moaning." Ashley said between laughs. Then she looked at them and said." I'll get you guys when you least expect prepare to feel the wrath of the Mystic Moon. Thens he turned on her heels and left towards her room laughing the entire way there.
Koori: Lol, ok so what is Ashley going to do? What will the boys do? Are they prepared like she said they should be? and when will I stop making stupid stuff up... lol...anyhoo thanks for reading Ja!!
Haned Megami se Tenshinranman soshite Kyuui
Chapter Five
Ashley stood there speechless, she couldn't beleive he had just kissed her. At one moment she was stunned, then she was happy, then she was full of rage. With her violet eyes gleaming, she pulled back her arm and slapped Dilandau hard. He kept his head to the side as he listened to Ashley run out of the melef bay. He couldn't beleive he just kissed her much less touched her. It was extremely shocking to him, though then again it wasn't. Shaking his head he walked slowly out of the hanger with one thought in his mind. why?
Ashley ran away from the melef bay thinking about what had just happened, she couldn't beleive he kissed her. And she couldn't beleive she had hit him. Of course he pissed her off, but kissing her? Running down one hallway she came a room where it had all fifteen dragonslayers in the room all swordfighting. Chesta stood off to the side without a sparring partner since Dilandau wasn't there. Ashley smiled and ran over to him, he looked at her confused and started speaking.
" What're you doing here?" Chesta asked her, he was facing her though he violet eyes looked past him and at the graceful movements of the dragonslayers.
" Just here, dunno why... do you ...do you think you could show me how to do that?" She asked like pointinf towards what Migel and Guimel were doing, which was sparring with swords. Chesta looked at her like she was crazy though when he looked into her pleading violet hues he caved.
" Fine, go get two wooden practice swords from the table over their and come to me in the middle of the room." He told her, nodding excitedly, all thoughts considering what happened with Dilandau left her mind. Running exstatically to the table to grabbed two practice swords and half ran half leaped over to Chesta. She handed him a sword and took her own, it was light but not too light.
" Ok, now hold it with two hands and charge at me." He said, blinking, Ashley held it tightly in both of her arms and then blinked.
" Charge you?" She asked, he smacked his forehead all the while asking himself what he had gotten himself into.
" Yeah, just run at me and try to hit me with your sword." He said, Ashley nodded unsure and gripped the handle of the sword. Taking in a deep breath she ran at him. Kind of unsure about what to do Ashley just swung her sword at him and he blocked it all the while side stepping.
Scrunching up her nose she continued to attack him with him effortlessly blocking. Finally they stopped and he took an new approach with her.
" Ok, now I'm going to attack and you block." He said, nodding Ashley gripped her sword again and didn't notice everyone crowding around them.
Ashley relaxed her body and for some reason felt like someone was controlling her every move. She could feel someone holding onto her hands so that she held the practice sword and stood against her body to help her move. She looked behind her but no one was there, shaking her head she watched as he ran at her. Taking the offensive he pushed Ashley back, her right heel dug into the hard packed dirt floor of the training room . She pushed her foot down harder but the force he applied made her slide back. Then with a cry and pushed all her strength into pushing him off of her. He looked at her funny and all she did was smile at him. They ran at each other all the while laughing and smiling, they locked and their faces were merely inches apart. Chesta threw her off of him and Ashley stumbled backwards. The crowd started backing up until she fell on her butt. She nodded at the awaiting Chesta and he didn't give her time to get up, he attacked her. She blocked surprisingly with great force, still sitting on her but she got on her knees still blocking his attacks. Then jumping to her feet she attacked him. They weren't holding back anymore and were giving it all they've got. Then out of no where, she twisted her wrist and his sword went flying out of his hands and slide into the wall. Ashley pointed her practice sword at Chesta's throat and got a full blown smile on her face. She took the sword back as applause erupted, Ashley stepped towards Chesta and slung an arm over his shoulder, he smiled at her and looked at the crowd only to go stiff and rigid. Ashley peered into the audience to see Dilandau there and scowling. He came over to them and turned to the dragonslayers.
" Get back to work!!" He barked, everyone scrambled around trying to find partners to spar with.
Growling he turned his gaze to Ashley and Chesta, Ashely was glaring at him she just turned her face she other way. Dilandau smirked as he watched Ashley walk out of the room. Turning to Chesta he unsheathed his sword and waited for him to do the same before they started training.
Ashley walked to her room and found the door halfway open, raising an eyebrow she just waked right in to find Folken in there. He was sitting on the dark blue chair that went to her vanity near the closet. Smiling to her older brother she sat in the bay window before turning to him. He smiled back at her before turning his face into a serious one. Blinking Ashley knew this wasn't going to be good.
" I want you to stay away from Dilandau, and to never, ever go into the training room." Folken told her in a low, serious voice. Ashley's eyebrows went into their hairline for the second time that night and she was confused.
" What do you mean ' stay away from Dilandau' what do you think I've been trying to do?" She asked him, he laughed at this and turned his twinkling eyes towards her.
" Ah, yes well then maybe you should try harder. Nothing good will come from messing or being with Dilandau. Just don't go near places he would be in." Folken told her, Ashley eagerly nodded 'yes' and he left her room.
Sitting by herself in her room, it was dark, and you could see the dark green foliage down below as the Vione made its treck to only god knows where. (( god: Cough*Dilandau*Cough)) Sighing she stood up finally and stretched her arms high above her head. Arching her back slightly she got an idea, she hadn't had enough time to take her things out of the bag besides her clothes so she decided to go through it.
Sitting in the middle of her black carpeted floor, she had her white and blue duffel bag in both hands shaking it vigourisly until all of its contents came spilling out. She noted how many electronical things she brought, and food. Her eyes glazed over and she started to drool as she thought about sitting in her house eating Edy's rocky road flavoed ice cream and watching Gundam Wing on her t.v.
A knock sounded from her door, which brought her out of her stupor. Sighing a little bit she cleared her throat and yelled out a ' come in '. Soon her room was filled with all six of her dragonslayer freinds. Smiling at them they all came in and sat around her, at least three were sitting on her bed, as they watched her sort through her things.
" What brings you guys here?" Ashley asked as she set yet another YM magazine off to the side. Apparently she was going to let Cara or Jami borrow them.
" We just got done with training, Dilandau only kept us two hours, can you beleive it?" Guimel said and watched her pick up a aqua colored thing with gre buttons on it. " What's that?" He asked, Ashley turned to him and smiled.
" It's called a gameboy, right now I have Evil Zone in it but you can change the games to whatever you want. " (( ok I know Evil zone is only for playstation but I like worship that game.)) Handing it over to him, he took it and flipped the 'on' switch, The screen flared to life and music began to play, soon it was showing them glipses of the contestants in the fights. Most of the dragonslayers were crowded around him as he began to choose who he wanted to be. Surprisingly for Ashley he chose her favorite character, Kakurine.
" Yah know Kakurine looks exactly like you only with crimson eyes." Gatti pondered outloud. Ashley laughed and picked up her mini stereo system. Blinking she wondered why this was in there, then she remembered Jami wanted to borrow it. Seemed like her freinds borrow everything, setting it up on her night stand she checked the batteries and was happy to find out they weren't even used.
Flipping the on switch, and hooking her stereo system to her mp3 player she set it to the fourth song. Ayumi Hamasaki's Evolution filled the room. Viole who was next to her fell off the bed in surprise when a woman's voice filtered through the speakers. Ashley started rocking her hips together with the music and began to sing along, moving seductively to the techno beats.
Sou da ne bokura atarashii jidai wo,
Mukaete mitai ne kisekiteki ka mo ne,
Nido to wa chotto ajiwaenai yo ne,
Mou ichido Omoidashite,
Kono hoshi ni umare tsuita hi,
Kitto nandaka ureshikute,
Kitto nandaka setsunakute,
Bokura wa naite itan da,
wow yeah wow yeah wow wow yeah,
Genjitsu wa uragiru mono de handansae,
Ayamaru kara ne soko ni aru kachi wa,
Sono mede chanto mikiwamete ite ne,
Jibun no monosashi de,
Konna toki ni umare tsuita yo,
Dakedo nanto ka shindette,
Dakara nanto ka koko ni tatte,
Bokura wa kyou wo okutteru,
wow yeah wow yeah wow yeah,
Konna hoshi ni umare tsuita yo,
Nandaka totemo ureshikute,
Nandaka totemo setsunakute,
Ookina koe de naki nagara,
wow yeah wow yeah wow wow yeah,
Konna toki ni umare tsuita yo,
Dakedo kimi ni deaeta yo,
Konna hoshi ni umare tsuita yo,
Dakedo kimi ni deaeta yo,
Kono hoshi ni umare tsuita hi,
Kitto nandaka ureshikute,
Kitto nandaka setsunakute,
Bokura wa naite itan da,
wow yeah wow yeah wow wow yeah,
Konna toki ni umare tsuita yo,
Dakedo nanto ka shindette,
Dakara nanto ka koko ni tatte,
Bokura wa kyou wo okutteru,
wow yeah wow yeah wow wow yeah!!
When Ashley finished the guys practically had their eyes bugging out of their head, they had no idea what she was saying. But it was cool, she had danced to the rythem of the fast talking lady in the box. That was when Chesta looked wickedly at the box and unsheathed his sword.
"That evil box has trapped that poor woman inside!!" He cried out and went to attack it when Ashley cried out in shock and tackled the poor boy to the floor. He looked at her funny, he was laying on his back and she was practically straddeling his chest.
" No, that box plays music, the woman isn't trapped someone recorded her voice and now I can play it whenever I want." Ashley explained, in the back ground laughter flared and Ashley turned her head to see Dilandau in the doorway of her room laughing full heartily.
Glaring at him Ashley slid off of Chesta whom stood up and watched Guimel play with the 'gameboy'. Sitting down infront of her stuff, she grabbed all of her cds and set them up in alphabetical order on the shelf of her night stand. She watched as Dilandau came over to her and sat near her. The guys were all having fun playing with her stuff, Viole was flipping through her magazines, Guimel was playing with her gameboy still with Gatti over his shoudler saying how he was dooing really bad, Chesta was looking at her stereo system suspiciously, and then Ryou and Migel were on her bed sorting through her make-up. It was odd sight, no one seemed to acknowledge their captian.
" Must be after hours." Ashley mumbled to herself.
She found the dark violet gameboy that you can hook up to the aqua one and play head to head. taking it and the cord she grabbed the aqua one and hooked them together. Now both Guimel and Gatti were fighting each other and laughing at their stupid mistakes. Ashley sat back down and noticed that Dilandau had found her stack of photo albums. One was green with gold trim, another was a floral design. He flipped through the pages and kept raising his eyebrow until it was trying to go beyond his hair line. Ashley sat behind him and peered over his shoulder at what he was looking at. These were the pictures from her last birthday party, when she turned fourteen. Actually come to think about it her birthday was coming up. She laughed as he turned the page and it showed her trying to blow out the candles, which cause she was laughing so hard resulted in her face in the side of the cake from when her freind Kat bumped her. Ashley giggled as the flashbacks started coming.
~Flashback~
It was really cold outside, it was winter time, the date being January 31st, Ashley's birthday. She was dressed in a pale pink long sleeve dress shirt, white tank top underneath, dark blue jeans and white tennis shoes. Her hair was left down with half the top pulled backa nd wied by a pale pink ribbon. She was currently sitting at the table blowing balloons up before the guests started to arrive in one hour. She was watching the Time Squad marathon, and laughed so hard the balloon flew forewards and flew around the room doing loop-to-loops.
Ashley laughed and her 'mother' came in, she was a beautiful woman, shoulder length strawberry blonde hair and large cobalt blue eyes, dark skinned. For some reason she and her mother never aged the same as other people. True they were the same age but for some reason everyone else around them would grow faster, while Ashley was always left behind being the smallest.
~End~
Ashley shook the memory from her head as she felt someone staring at her, she hadn't noticed the dragonslayers leave until she recognized that the room was empty of noise. Looking up from staring at the floor she ended up staring into Diladau's crimson orbs. Sighing Ashley didn't understand why this seemingly angel like child was so horrible, and why her brother didn't want her to be freinds with him if he worked with him. True, Dilandau did kiss her, but it was more of a heat of the moment type deal. Though, after she had slaped him and run off she wanted to return to him and say she was sorry. She should never of done that it was very mean on her part.
" Dilandau, I"m really sorry about ealier... I didn't mean to slap you. It just came out and.. and I'm really sorry." Ashley looked up at him and was hoping for forgiveness. Dilandau stared at her and shrugged it off.
Ashley watched him and knew she couldn't hold this against him, after all it was male hormones and she'd have to deal with the same thing if she were at home. She smiled at him and noticed he was laying sideways facing her on the carpet. He had removed his armor and only sat there clad in a white tank top tunic, much like hers, tight black leggings and his knee high black boots. Ashley chewed on he bottom lip and thought about how soft his lips were against hers, regardless if they were crushing together. Heeving a rather large sigh Ashley scrunched up her nose and pouted, she watched him play idly with her carpet and noticed how cute he looked. He no longer had his barriers up and Ashley was happy he was relaxed with her. Smiling rather victoriously, Ashley layed herself on the soft plush carpet, she was staring up at the ceiling and yawned sleepily. She watche dout of the corner of her eye as Dilandau scooted rather closely to her, she frowned slightly but tarnished it. If he even touched a hair on her head her brother would kick his ass, right?
" I'm sorry for what I said earlier." He mumbled, Ashley's eyes nearly bugged out of her head. According to Chesta Dilandau has never apologized to anyone in his entire life. Blinking Ashley nearly choked on her own saliva, and here he was nervously apologizing to her.
" It's ok, don't worry about it we all have our jackass moments." Ashley said to him, though inside she added. ' Yours are just all the fucking time.' Still smiling outwardly to him, she was scowling on the inside. She still couldn't get evil thoughts out of her head about him and here he was laying on her floor, next to her, looking all sexy like.
" Hm, what would you say if I was to kiss you?" Dilandau finally asked her, Ashley rose an eyebrow and looked at him.
" Well, i ask if you were drunk and knew full well what you were doing, and then if you were still insistant I'd tell you, that your men might come back and walk in on us." Ashley answered rather thoughtfully, Dilandau had somehow gotten closer to her while she was thinking and his body barely touched hers. Ashley stared at him as he leaned over her. His face was just inches from hers and she could tell by the look in his eyes he had a plan formed.
" And I would reply, that I didn't care." He whispered softly and leaned down, his lips softly touched hers. He closed his eyes slowly, though Ashley had already been there. He ran his tongue along her bottom lip and was surprised when she complied and opened her mouth.
Ashley's entire world exploded as his tongue tentatively explored the inside of her mouth. Their tongues intertwined together and dueled for dominancy, Ashley's pale hands found their way to his silky silver tresses and continued to run her hands through them. Dilandau ran a hand up her sides until he came to her breasts, he gently stroked the right one with his thumb through her shirt, this cause her to arch her back and moan low in her throat. Satisfied, Dilandau leaned back and watched her face, it was relaxed and held a large smile. Her dark eyelashes laid gently against her pale cheeks, only to move as she slowly opened them. Her eyes were dreamy as she slowly licked her lips. Ashley couldn't beleive that the kiss was like that. She couldn't beleive she actually let him, then Ashley thought about her brother.
' It would just be great if he walked in on us at this moment.' Ashley thought to herself, she now noticed that her fingers were laced in his silver locks. Smiling to herself she then noticed what they looked like, she was laying on the floor, one leg layng straight, the other arched slightly rubbing against his thigh. He was stradling her waist with his arms on either side of her, with her fingers in his hair. The two just started at each other for a while. Then Dilandau leaned into her, Ashley's breath caught into her throat as she thought about him kissing her. Just when he was about to he stopped and smirked at her vulnerability. and in one swift motion he stood up, grabbed his armor and left, closing the door silently behind him.
See, Ashley didn't notice due to the fact she had her eyes closed when she awaited the kiss. Laying there on the soft carpeted floor Ashley's lips were reddened from the previous kiss, and were now puckered up. About ten minutes went by before Ashley finally cracked an eye open, then the other one. Scowling Ashley sat up and slammed her hands into the floor.
"FUCK!!" was the only word that escaped her mouth as she scowled at what Dilandau did.
Dilandau had just come out of his room from putting his armor on when he heard Ashley scream in her room. Shaking his head he walked down towards the mess hall, he didn't really want to leave but he had a previous chat with her older brother and didn't nessecarily want to get in his way at the moment.
~Flashback~
" Dilandau I want you to stay away from her." Folken stated, his voice was low and serious, almost set off vibes that said ' touch my sister with a ten foot pole and I'll kill you'.
" I can't gurantee that Folken." He told the man, Folken peered at Dilandau kind of suspiciously before nodding and getting back to little 'experiment'.
~End~
Dilandau thought about what he had done with Ashley and mentally sighed, he knew he was in love with this girl and what, she'd only been here three days. He must've been getting soft, he'd have to fix that though, he'd definately have to fix that.
Ashley got up off her carpet when he stomach growled, picked up her gamboy, mp3 player, and a plastic baggy of fig newtons, Ashley went out her door. Listening to Ayumi Hamsaki's Never Ever. Swaying her hips to the music she turned on her purple gameboy and started to play donkey kong. She had her music up to maximum volume so when she turned a corner to go into the mess hall she didn't notice or hear the other slayers. Playing her game she walked through the line occassionally grabbing things to put on her tray. Grabbing a bottle of vino and a glass she came out the line and thought against sitting with the slayers. Instead she walked right past their table, which made Dalet reach back and grab the back of her shirt.
Stumbling back she had to be careful not to spill her food all over herself or anyone else. Glaring at Dallet it told him he had five seconds to tell her what he wanted since he was keeping her from her beloved food.
" Do you want to join us?" He asked her, Ashley blinked then took off her headphones, the music blared from within and she nodded 'yes'. After all how could you possible deprive these people of her presence. She noticed how Dilandau was once again sitting diagonal from her though this time she was sitting on the edge of the bench and this time she would not faint or have a weird spaz.
" So, whatcha guys up to?" Ashley asked them taking a bit of her steak, she absolutely loved steak. Then she remembered her fig newtons, half squeeling half gurgling as she swallowed the steak she opened the zip lock baggy and took one out and popping it into her mouth.
" What's that?" Guimel asked her, Ashley blinked then handed the bag out to everyone as she chewed on her fig newton, she practically had three packages in her room anyways. Everyone took one and hesitantly put it in their mouths, even Dilandau.
" It's a fig newton, it's a kind of cookie on earth." She explained, everyone liked them, but Viole ended up eating the entire bag earning him a soft swat to the head by Ashley.
After they talked, ate, drank, and talked some more it was nine-o-clock and time for them all to turn in. Ashley talked Gatti into giving her a piggyback ride on their way to the rooms. After about half way there he started complaining about her being too heavy, which was a joke, Ashley pouted and started looking at herself.
" I'm not fat." She pouted and bent over to look at her legs, then when she stood up she heard someone snickering behind her and turned around but everyone was gone.
Frowning Ashley thought this wasn't the least bit funny, then she heard someone laughing to her left, but when she turned to looke no one was there. Slightly scared Ashley could have sworn the guys were with her now they like dissappeared. Ashley turned around and faced the end of the hallway that held her room. Biting her bottom lip she wondered if she could make a mad dash for it and not seem like a wuss. Then it happened, the lights turned out. The hallway became very dark, very scary, and all the shapes started turning into demons of the night. Ashley stiffened as she felt someone walked past her but since her eyes hadn't adjust to the darkness yet she couldn't see who or what it was.
Swallowing hard Ashley didn't want to seem scared, about to take a step foreward she suddenly felt something stroke her hair from behind. Squeeky Ashley stiffly turned around and immediatly screamed. There was this tall black blob in front of her, Ashley took a step back as it reached for her. The thing was moaning low in its throat, eyes wide in fear Ashley turned and ran as fast as she could but couldn't see her room in the dark hallway. Turning back to see if it was catching up with her she ended up bumping into someone or something. Landing on her butt she was too scared to speak of scream, the thing in front of her was the same thing that was chasing her. Then remembering she had some witch training she blinked. Scooting backwards away from the slowly aproaching figure she bumped into something behind her, looking up she saw that it was the one that was actually chasing her. Scared half to death she figured a light spell would work to help her gain an advantage.
" Once was dark, now is light, please give me the better sight." She mumbled not even half sure it would work. Then to her surprise she could see int he darkness as if there were millions of lights on.
Looking at the figures before her she noticed that it was Guimel holding Chesta on his shoulders with a weird black blanket over them, and then Migel holding Viole on his shoulders, while Ryou and Gatti were standing off to the side trying not to laugh. Though she saw Dilandau, and in the darkness nothing made a sound, no one knew where she was. For it was pitch black and they were only relying on sound. Ashley smirked to herself as she walked up to Dilandau, she was about a couple of steps in front of him and he still couldn't see her, that's how black it was. Smiling evilly to herself she walked off a bit until she was near her bedroom door, then she whispered, though since she was kind of far away it echoed.
" I am everywhere, I am everywhere. You should watch your backs, you should watch your backs." Was all she said, though who ever she sounded like mad them stiffen before they started calling out for Ashley.
" Ashley is that you are you ok?!?" Ryou was asking, Ashley walked towards them acting like she had been crying. The lights came on and Ashley stood there with her hands over her face pretending that she was crying. Gatti put a hand on her shoulder but it only shook, with what they thought were sobs but were actually laughs. Soon she couldn't hold it in any longer she let her hands fall to her side and she laughed.
" You are so weird." Guimel said and raised one of his eyebrows.
" Yeah well atleast I wasn't holding anyone on my shoudlers moaning." Ashley said between laughs. Then she looked at them and said." I'll get you guys when you least expect prepare to feel the wrath of the Mystic Moon. Thens he turned on her heels and left towards her room laughing the entire way there.
Koori: Lol, ok so what is Ashley going to do? What will the boys do? Are they prepared like she said they should be? and when will I stop making stupid stuff up... lol...anyhoo thanks for reading Ja!!